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• 9 • Introduction (The Secret History of Fantasy) • essay by Peter S. Beagle
• 15 • Ancestor Money • (2003) • short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• 31 • Scarecrow • [Oz (Maguire)] • (2001) • short story by Gregory Maguire
• 43 • Lady of the Skulls • (1993) • short story by Patricia A. McKillip
• 55 • We are Norsemen • (1977) • short story by T. Coraghessan Boyle (variant of We Are Norsemen) [as by T. C. Boyle]
• 65 • The Barnum Museum • (1990) • short story by Steven Millhauser
• 81 • Mrs. Todd's Shortcut • [Castle Rock] • (1984) • novelette by Stephen King
• 109 • Bears Discover Fire • (1990) • short story by Terry Bisson
• 121 • Bones • (2000) • short story by Francesca Lia Block
• 125 • Snow, Glass, Apples • (1995) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 139 • Fruit and Words • (2001) • short story by Aimee Bender
• 151 • The Empire of Ice Cream • (2003) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• 179 • The Edge of the World • (1989) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 195 • Super Goat Man • (2004) • short story by Jonathan Lethem
• 215 • John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner • [The Raven King] • (2006) • short story by Susanna Clarke
• 225 • The Book of Martha • (2003) • short story by Octavia E. Butler
• 245 • The Vita Æterna Mirror Company: Mirrors to Last Till Kingdom Come • (1993) • short story by Yann Martel
• 275 • Sleight of Hand • (2009) • short story by Peter S. Beagle
• 297 • Mythago Wood • (1981) • novelette by Robert Holdstock
• 341 • 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss • (2008) • short story by Kij Johnson
• 355 • The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists • (2007) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 367 • The Making of the American Fantasy Genre • (2009) • essay by David G. Hartwell